Feds: Ex-Angel supplied drugs

Federal prosecutors plan to present testimony from “approximately” five Major League Baseball players who allege they received oxycodone from a former Angels employee who faces trial in the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, according to a court filing late Friday.

The filing accuses former Angels communications director Eric Kay of being the “singular source” who supplied oxycodone to the players in varying amounts.

Skaggs died July 1, 2019, in his Southlake hotel room before the Angels were to play the Rangers. A grand jury indicted Kay in October on counts of distributing the drug that allegedly led to Skaggs’ death and conspiring to “possess with the intent to distribute” fentanyl “beginning in or before 2017.” Kay has pleaded not guilty.

After several delays, Kay is scheduled for trial Oct. 4 in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth.